From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 22 10:20:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07640 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:20:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from d198-232.uoregon.edu (d198-232.uoregon.edu [128.223.198.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07605 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:20:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu) Received: (from mini@localhost) by d198-232.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA14629; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:13:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19980122101313.15733@micron.mini.net> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:13:13 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini To: Tom Bartol Cc: Mike Smith , Snob Art Genre , Amancio Hasty , Andrzej Bialecki , Jonathan Mini , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Reply-To: Jonathan Mini References: <199801220050.LAA00403@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Tom Bartol on Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 08:34:58AM -0800 X-files: The Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Tom Bartol stands accused of saying: > O.K. How about this: would it be possible to use an mfs for /var. Of > course, using an mfs for /tmp is trivial but /var needs to contain certain > subdirs. Yes. I do it over here. You just need to modify the /etc/rc.* family to create the /var filesystem before running anything that would need it. -- Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions Software Development P.O. Box 5693, Eugene, Or. 97405 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."